Makeup Of The Day

If I can do an outfit of the day why not a makeup of the day? This was a look I wore the other day when one of my friends came round my house and is a look that I wear often because of the neutral colours.

I have actually used a taupe colour from an Avon palette called Glow Teal all over my lid and then Mac Charcoal Brown in my crease and on the outside corner of my eye. Then I have Urban Decay Virgin on my brown bone and the inner corner of my eye. 

I also have on Maybelline the Falsies as my mascara and Maybelline Eyestudio lasting drama gel eyeliner 24hr in Black Gold to create the winged liner look.

I like this look because it is very wearable during the day time and can be darkened up for the night time as well, plus it is easy and simple for those mornings where I only have 10 minutes to do all my makeup. I would love to know what sort of a make up look you would do if you only had 10 minutes! 

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Using my Mac palette

My addiction to makeup is beginning to become a problem. You can only use one of each product at a time but yet I seem to have lots of each which is ridiculous. As I love makeup so much I am always watching tutorials on YouTube and trying them out myself. Because of this, I have picked up a few techniques that I use in my makeup all the time. I created a look the other day that I decided I wanted to show on my blog. I have used my Mac palette that I created a blog post on a little while ago. If you would like to read that blog post then I will put the link at the end of this blog post. So here is the make up look.

Foundation- Rimmel Wake me up- 200 Soft Beige.

Powder- Rimmel Stay Matte- 001 Transparent.

Blush- Nars- Orgasm.

Contour/ Bronzer- Mac powder blush- Harmony. 

Eyeshadow- Mac- Satin Taupe, Smut. Urban Decay- Virgin.

Brows- Mac- Charcoal Brown.

Eye liner- Bourjois Paris- Liner Stylo- Noir. Maybelline 24HR Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner-08 Black Gold

Lashes- Just some really cheap ones from savers:)

Lips- Avon Lipstick- Matte Grape. Maybelline 20HR Super Stay Tint Gloss- Timeless Plum.

For my eyes I have Satin Taupe all over with Smut in the outer corner and Virgin on the brow bone. For my lips I have Matte Grape on first with Timeless Plum on over the top. I have contoured my cheeks and nose.

Unfortunately the lighting seems to wash me out in the pictures so you cannot see much contouring or blush at all, but you can see the eyes and lips which is the main part to this look.

As you can see in the pictures I also have a Halo braid in my hair. This look was for an evening meal look so I did use lashes and I have dressed up slightly. This is what the halo braid looked like. I got this idea from a hair tutorial on Zoella's (Zoe Sugg's) YouTube channel.

To create this I tied the top section of my hair back to keep it away from my face. I then took a piece of hair from behind my ear on each side of my head, plaited them as normal and then pulled them across my head and bobby pinned them into place. I then took out the hairband keeping my hair back, added a little bit of hair spray and brushed the ends through again just to smooth any knots out.

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Link to Mac palette post: http://amzdancers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/my-mac-palette.html

Confidence and Self Image

I have never been the most confident or outgoing person. From a very young age I have been shy and self conscious. At the age of 16 I got myself my first job. It was not a great job and I ended up quitting for a better one three weeks later, but for me that was an achievement. The better job is in fact still my job now. I am a door host in a restaurant. This fits in nicely with me being in education because it only requires me to work weekends and holidays which means that I can still do and have nice things but be benefiting from education at the same time.

My job includes me having to talk to people as soon as they come through the door. This at first was quite daunting for me as I was such a shy person but if I wanted to be good at my job I needed to get past this. I truly believe that if I had not had got this job, I would have no where near the amount of confidence I have today. I am still very shy about a lot of things and am by no means anywhere near as confident as I wish I could be, but this makes me who I am.

Your self image is an important part of who you are and you should create that yourself. Never let anyone else define that for you because they do not know who you truly are. 

Confidence is important in life, not just for academic or professional reasons but also for personal reasons. You need confidence to have a positive self image and without a positive self image you may find yourself doubting you abilities to do great things. For example, this blog is something that is important to me. I love writing blogs whether people read them or not because it is actually fun  however, I had only told a few friends about it because I felt to embarrassed to let someone I knew read it. Me and my friend Funto who has a YouTube channel decided a couple of months back to put links to our profiles in our twitter bio and then on our instagrams. A couple of weeks ago, we decided we were actually going to post our links onto our personal facebook's as a status and on our twitters as a tweet. I was quiet anxious about doing it because I generally care about my friends and family's opinions but I have had a really positive response and now I wish I had just built up the confidence to post them sooner!

This might not be a very interesting blog post to some, but I just wanted to stress the importance of confidence, self image and self belief, not just to anyone reading, but also to myself. In the future I can read this back and remind myself to believe in myself and be confident. Especially as I was so anxious to actually post this post because of the subject of it!

Thank you for reading this post, and believe in yourself<3

August Monthly Favourites

I have always wanted to do a monthly favourites post but have always been too late in writing it. So this month I have started writing this post in advance so that I would not forget.

My first monthly favourite would be one of the Nars multiples in the colour Copacabana. This is a lovely shade for highlight, it works beautifully with my skin tone and it looks very nice with the recent summer makeup looks that I have been loving. I have had some of the multiples for quite a while now but have not really got into using them until this month. They blend really easily and have excellent colour pay off.

My next monthly favourite is the colour Half Baked in the Naked 1 Urban Decay Palette. I have been using it in day time looks as well as night time looks and absolutely loving it. If you would like to see one of the makeup looks I used it in, check out my friend Funto's YouTube channel. We went out a couple of weeks ago and filmed a video for her channel along with a blog post from me. I will link both below so that you can have a look.

Funto's Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTJ7FGipMI&list=UUNI_C4o8BzkXewb1nQCb1Fw
My Post- http://amzdancers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/ootd-outfit-of-night-clubbing-edition.html

The next product that has been a favourite for me this month would be the Maybelline 24hr colour tattoos. My favourite colour being Number 35- On and On Bronze, but I have been using all different colours a lot this month for quick and easy makeup looks. They are really easy to blend and great on their own if you want to wear some eye shadow without taking a long time to do it.

Another product that I have been loving this month is lip liner. I have been using them as lipsticks whether I just put them on by themselves or with a clear lip balm over the top to take away the matte finish. Two that I have been loving are Rimmel's Exaggerate full colour lip liner in the colour 063- Eastend Snob and Rimmel's Lasting Finish 1000 kisses lip liner in the Colour 011- Spice. In the swatch picture bellow, Spice is on the left and Eastend Snob is on the right.

The last beauty product that I have been loving this month would be the Shellac Bluesky gel polish in the colour 40524, at least that is the number on the sticker on the bottle. It is not a very summery colour but I have been loving it anyway. I have my own UV lamp which means I can do my nails myself and not have to pay every time to get them done. My painting skills may not be as good and they may chip quicker when I do them myself but they still give the same effect.

I wanted to include a couple of other things that were not beauty products as they are also things I have been loving this month. The first would be the shop Newlook. At the moment, all the things I seem to be picking out of my wardrobe to wear have been clothes from Newlook. I have also been loving jelly shoes. I have been wearing them on a daily basis but also on nights out so have been getting plenty of wear out of the pairs I own. Because both pairs of my jelly shoes are from Newlook I thought it fit in with this favourite.

One other thing that I have been loving this month is iced lattes/ iced mocha's. I have been making these myself at home and they have been really refreshing in all the hot weather that we have been having. 

That is everything that I have been loving this month.
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